sol **SPOILERS** Surviving a brutal mugging where her husband was killed and she left totally deaf from the gunfire Liza Raines', Lucy Jenner, life went into a downward spiral. It's when it was decided to experiment on Liza's deafness by implanting a number of revitalized cells into her inner ear that she miraculously regained her hearing. This soon became a curse more then a blessing for Liza.These secret ear experiments conducted by Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, John De Lancie & George Takei, did in fact improve or cure their patients loss of hearing but also drove them both insane and suicidal. In fact of the 15 persons who were treated by the two doctors 14 of them ended up dead within the first three weeks with only patient #14 Liza Raines being the only one who survived!Not only did Liza survive with her hearing and health in tact but was able to not only hear what people say but what they think as well! Something that the top Washington D.C CIA Administrator Aiden Porter, Costas Madylon, became very interested in and wanted to have Liza put under his control.As we soon see Porter wasn't at all interested in the national security of the United States but the personal security of his himself and his job. Porter wants Liza to read the minds of his superiors like Let. Gen Geroge Humes, Tucker Smallwood, and use what dirty secrets that they have to blackmail them. This leads in Porter's finding out through Liza the thoughts and actions, in him being a pedophile, of a newly nominated Supreme Court judge who was going to vote against funding his agency. This not only forced the judge to withdrawal his nomination for the the Supreme Court but to hang himself in his garage!It's later when Liza realizes what her boss Aiden Porter is up to in using her unique ability to farther his own power in government, to both blackmail and murder, that she started to use them against him. That's in exposing Porter's plans in him becoming the power behind the President and the Congress in running the country anonymously and without being challenged by the election process. But before Liza can do that she has to prevent Porter from murdering her, like he already did Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, in order to prevent Liza from bringing the truth out about him and his diabolical future plans to the public!

Claudio Carvalho The secretary Liza Raines (Lucy Jenner) becomes deaf after a shooting in a robbery, is evicted and later she is found by the social assistant Grant Kane (John J. York) living in her car. Grant brings Liza to a Transition Shelter to be rehabilitated, and she accepts to be submitted to an experimental treatment never tested in humans in the Center for Hearing Research. The leader of the research Dr. Gene Kramer (John de Lancie) is pressed by the CIA agent Aiden Porter (Costas Mandylor) that is funding his experiment to test his vaccine of restoration of cells in fifteen patients, and he advises that the rats subjected to the experiment became psychotic. The patients also become psychotic and suicidal, with the exception of Liza, the patient 14. She achieves the ability of hearing frequencies emitted by the brain and read minds as a side effect. Porter recruits Liza to work in CIA disclosing the innermost thoughts of the suspects, but later Liza finds his real hidden intentions."The Eavesdropper" is a reasonable movie with an original story that has a great beginning and becomes too much complicated in the end with the betrayals and conspiracies. I thought this movie was a pilot of a show because of the open end. The unknown Lucy Jenner has a great performance, but her character deserved to be better developed in the beginning, showing her past life to the viewers. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Paciente 14" ("Patient 14")

melvin-1 Although it was slow at times it shed light of a TV series idea in the commentary on the DVD. There have been other series that was about a real person or a real thing, so a focus on the character so a focus of day to day life could work. I have come upon movies that have a potential TV series idea and now if they would stop calling this just a TV movie they have something worth it. I like a movie about a real possibility and this is it, watch it if you like science fiction or science fact. I know this is science fact some say no but a series like this could beat other shows so I hope this is going somewhere. Another thing my medical problems with my brain (epilepsy) years ago could have given me a better life if only something like this had happened to me.One thing that many people say that several minds being listened to at once would be hard. In a crowd of people and all are talking and you want to hear one you focus on that voice. It's the same with the mind voice. I have talked to several of my doctors and they have commented that it is a real possibility.

J M The premise that a person could hear other peoples thoughts all the time would of course be distressing to the person involved, however, the way that it's implemented into this film is that you, the viewer, have to listen to the same constant babble of peoples thoughts while trying to work out what is being discussed in the current conversation.Trying to listen to several different voices at once and trying to understand what they are all saying makes this film a very stressful one to watch. Ideally you'd just pay attention to the main conversation but they're at a volume that makes this just not possible.To be honest, I didn't watch this film all the way through, I can't recommend it.